Comments on: Amazon Affiliates Burned At The Stake By Kindle?

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Monetizeology ™ » Interesting Goals, Dreams & Strategies — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:57:33 +0000

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By: Kindle

Kindle — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:03:03 +0000

The Kindle has been a huge success, selling some 340,000 units already. However, I bet most people to straight to Amazon to buy theirs (after all, it is the Amazon Kindle) rather than look around online for places to buy one like they would with a typical item. Then again, if Amazon thought they were selling enough, they wouldn’t be offering such generous commissions to affiliates.

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Social Media and Digital Advertising Marketing News — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 04:42:17 +0000

[...] Amazon’s Kindle Bypasses Affiliates and Then Some Andy Beard asks if Amazon is looking to bypass its affiliates with its new Kindle eBook reader. Sure seems that way and affiliates aren’t the only ones being bypassed! Wireless, digital downloads of books are made possible by Amazon Whispernet, a proprietary wireless delivery system that uses the same national high-speed data network used by advanced cell phones. Kindle users shop the Kindle store via the reader, and download books and other content without even having to find a Wi-Fi hotspot, according to Amazon. [...]

By: Lord Matt

Lord Matt — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 13:54:33 +0000

This is not the first digital book to be produced even if the marketing firm do have vast amounts of traction. They will have to overcome two inherent bias: (1) “Real books are made of paper” and (2) “Digital goods are just for geeks”.

The value seekers will be looking to purchase the “real” thing because you can sell that again and the savvy geek will jack Linux onto a PDA and get the same content (give or take a bit) for free or next to free.

If they can tap a “cool” vibe as iPod did then they have a chance of selling it to students who can ill afford it. However it seems to me this is a dead loss. I will be more surprised if it was a success and even if it is that will be only in the US and only parts thereof. (it needs wireless access).

By: bLuefRogX

bLuefRogX — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 02:07:00 +0000

As a reader, I do like the Kindle reader, but as an affiliate, I suppose I’d be burned as well :(

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Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:27:25 +0000

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By: FinanceAndFat

FinanceAndFat — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:20:32 +0000

The Kindle looks like a huge failure to me. I wouldn’t be concerned. If you can get $40 from one of the 12 people who are going to buy one, take it!

By: smoMashup

smoMashup — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:11:18 +0000

I’m going to echo some of the comments above. My prediction is that the Kindle will live about as long than the diVx DVD’s they were hawking a few years ago at Circuit City. This seems like a poor rush at a solid idea. At the very best the technology behind this will spurn better units in the future. As it stands now I wouldn’t try to find a 2nd job just yet all ye’ affliliates!

By: SEO Buzz Box

SEO Buzz Box — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:00:52 +0000

If you do book reviews Amazon.com already will outrank you 99% of the time no matter how good yours is in Google. Google has it setup this way. So, the only value of book a review is to generate content for visitors and yes search engines. People buy a lot of books from my websites that only have a couple reviews on them…they browse into Amazon.com and buy a pile.

Shawn Collins – I wouldn’t be so sure, if they market it correctly people are more than ready to do away with paper.

Save a forest.

Aaron

By: Shawn Collins

Shawn Collins — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:30:39 +0000

I believe the first iPods were also quite expensive, and they have gained traction.

Apples and oranges. Walkmans and other personal stereos were already hugely popular before MP3 players. The iPod was just an evolution of the Walkman IMHO.

If this takes off internationally, I know it will help students who sometimes have major problems buying or borrowing required books from libraries (at least here in Poland)

Agreed that it could have a good application in that respect. Having worked with medical books sold online in the past, I know there is certainly a need internationally for those sorts of titles. But novels and the latest popular non-fiction? I don't see it.